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'Keep the name out of your mouth!' Progressive trashes 'bitter' GOP ads in searing rebuke
The GOP’s Name Game Is a Cheap Form of PowerThe Story Beneath the QuoteAbdul El-Sayed, after winning the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan, went after Republican Mike Rogers for attack ads that leaned on the length and foreignness of his full name, and for the allegation that Rogers may actually live in Florida instead of Michigan. That is the surface event. The real story is the kind of politics the GOP thinks it can still get away with: ethnic dog-whistling on one side, accountability-evading residency politics on the other.Who Is Doing the DamageThe party with the institutional…
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